Obama to Visit Crown Heights School

on Friday:

http://prospectheights.patch.com/groups/schools/p/obama-to-visit-crown-heights-school-friday

If you were planning on going anywhere in the borough on Friday forget about it.

Anyone want to guess the motorcade route from Prospect Park to Albany and Dean?

The test landing of Marine 1 and 2 helos was (curiously) on the ballfields - opposite end of the park from Crown Heights. Maybe a decoy site?

Common sense (and vanity/aesthetics!) would suggest the motorcade exits the park at Grand Army Plaza, takes beautiful Eastern Parkway to Kingston, then a left on Kingston, right on Dean, and one block to the school. Or screw it - make the left on Albany going the wrong way; the SS will clearly have the street cleared either way.

Or blow everyone's minds and take POTUS down Atlantic?

I have heard it will be Empire to Kingston.

Oh, or one could Google it (at risk of the NSA showing up at one's door) and find out the official route is:

Prospect Park > Empire Boulevard > Kingston

Apparently directness takes priority over scenery.

http://crownheights.info/crown-heights-news/405762/obamas-motorcade-to-travel-up-kingston-ave/

It is ironic that this route takes him through one of the least Democratic areas of Brooklyn.

I don't know. I don't think the Lubavitch of Kingston Ave. are very Republican. Conservative when it comes to religion but not much else.

It is relative.

I am not stating that they are not Democratic relative to, say, parts of Texas.

There's no parking on Kingston all the way from Empire to Atlantic, so I think Whynot's right about the route.

I think it is safe to predict that pictures of Obama shaking the Principal's hand will be hung in P-Tech starting on Monday, and lasting beyond 2050.

Oops, should've read notsayin's post first. Also just read in an email from the Brower Park farmer's market that the NYPD advised Kingston Ave and the park would be closed from 2-5. Neighbors, get your cameras ready.

Principal of P-Tech

http://www.ptechnyc.org/Page/51

FWIW I had to run an errand in eastern Queens today. I went, @ 10:30 via Eastern Pkwy and the Jackie Robinson PKWY. I returned, @ 12:00, via the JR PKWY and Eastern Pkwy to Albany Ave to E. New York Ave to Brooklyn Ave to Midwood St., only a slight change from my usual route. I had no problems either way. I did not try to pass Kingston Avenue on Eastern Pkwy.

Oh Boy! Crown heights is really on the map now.